Title

Author

Degree Type

Thesis

Date of Award

2015

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

Richard Mansbach

Abstract

This paper analyses the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine that lasted over the period of nine-months (29 July 2013 – 29 April 2014), under the theoretical framework of Robert Putnam’s two-level games model. The model does not offer a solution to the decades-old conflict, however it draws our attention to different actors that influenced the negotiations. Thus, the model identifies the factors that possibly caused failure to the peace-process.